Beeline CLI to HDINSIGHT hive server

You can interact with hive server through many ways as listed at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HiveServer2+Clients 

Beeline is a command shell which can be used to interact with hive server. On HdInsight if you try it you might see below failure

 

hdiuser@headnode0:~$ beeline

Beeline version 0.14.0.2.2.7.1-10 by Apache Hive

beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001 admin

scan complete in 12ms

Connecting to jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001

Enter password for jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001: **********

….

Java heap space

0: jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001 (closed)> !quit

Java heap space

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport.receiveSaslMessage(TSaslTransport.java:181)

        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport.open(TSaslTransport.java:288)

        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslClientTransport.open(TSaslClientTransport.java:37)

        at org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveConnection.openTransport(HiveConnection.java:190)

        at org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveConnection.<init>(HiveConnection.java:163)

        at org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver.connect(HiveDriver.java:105)

        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)

        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:187)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.DatabaseConnection.connect(DatabaseConnection.java:138)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.DatabaseConnection.getConnection(DatabaseConnection.java:179)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.Commands.close(Commands.java:916)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.Commands.closeall(Commands.java:898)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.close(BeeLine.java:814)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.begin(BeeLine.java:764)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.mainWithInputRedirection(BeeLine.java:476)

        at org.apache.hive.beeline.BeeLine.main(BeeLine.java:459)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)

        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)

hdiuser@headnode0:~$

 

HDInsihgt hive server is configured in HTTP mode whereas beeline is trying to communicate in TCP mode resulting this failure. Using transportMode in connect parameters will resolve the issue. Here is the sample example

hdiuser@headnode0:~$ beeline --verbose=true

Beeline version 0.14.0.2.2.7.1-10 by Apache Hive

beeline> !connect jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001/;transportMode=http admin

scan complete in 13ms

Connecting to jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001/;transportMode=http

Enter password for jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001/;transportMode=http: **********

Connected to: Apache Hive (version 0.14.0.2.2.7.1-10)

Driver: Hive JDBC (version 0.14.0.2.2.7.1-10)

Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ

0: jdbc:hive2://headnodehost:10001/>

 

Here is the stackoverflow post for reference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32661771/apache-beeline-throws-java-heap-space-error-on-hdinsight-clusters/32661772\#32661772